ὑπακοή
obedience
also: compliance, submission fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 8 times (53%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 3 times (20%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (13%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 15 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5218 appears — 14 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Romans 6 verses
- Romans 1:5 ὑπακοὴν n acc sg fem through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
- Romans 5:19 ὑπακοῆς n gen sg fem For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.
- Romans 6:16 ὑπακοήν ὑπακοῆς n acc sg fem n gen sg fem Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
- Romans 15:18 ὑπακοὴν n acc sg fem For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
- Romans 16:19 ὑπακοὴ n nom sg fem For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
- Romans 16:26 ὑπακοὴν n acc sg fem
2 Corinthians 3 verses
- 2 Corinthians 7:15 ὑπακοήν n acc sg fem His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
- 2 Corinthians 10:5 ὑπακοὴν n acc sg fem throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
- 2 Corinthians 10:6 ὑπακοή n nom sg fem and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.
Philemon 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
1 Peter 3 verses
- 1 Peter 1:2 ὑπακοὴν n acc sg fem according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled in his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
- 1 Peter 1:14 ὑπακοῆς n gen sg fem as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
- 1 Peter 1:22 ὑπακοῇ n dat sg fem Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“obedience” is the headline sense of the Greek noun υπακοη (hypakoḗ). First canonically at Romans 1:5, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 14 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in Romans. Not a single-sense word, it carries 2 senses, among them “compliance” and “submission”. See the sense tree, 14-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5218 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 6 verses 43%
- 2 Corinthians 3 verses 21%
- 1 Peter 3 verses 21%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 10 verses · 71%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 21%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Obedience 11×, Obedient 2×
- American Standard Version: Obedience 14×
- Berean Standard Bible: Obedience 11×, Obedient 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Obedience 15×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5218 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5218 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5218 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5218 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- obedience, compliance, submission
- obedience rendered to anyone's counsels, an obedience shown in observing the requirements of Christianity
Word origin
Derived from υπακουω (hypakoúō) (G5219) — to listen.
From G5219 ; attentive hearkening that is (by implication) compliance or submission : - obedience (make) obedient obey (-ing).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G5218 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑπακοὴν hypakoḕn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 1:5 | 5 |
| ὑπακοήν hypakoḗn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 6:16 | 3 |
| ὑπακοῆς hypakoē̂s | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Romans 5:19 | 3 |
| ὑπακοῇ hypakoē̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Philemon 1:21 | 2 |
| ὑπακοή hypakoḗ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 10:6 | 1 |
| ὑπακοὴ hypakoḕ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 16:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5218, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υπακοη appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 22:36 ὑπακοή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5218) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5218) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
